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Labor to reject drug test bill

The Opposition will vote against the government’s welfare drug testing legislation, leaving the future of the controversial scheme in serious doubt. A Labor caucus meeting on Monday decided to...

CSIRO silent on drug testing

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The CSIRO’s involvement with the government’s drug testing of welfare recipients is still up in the air as new documents reveal the organisation has still not signed a contract...

Blockchain and food provenance

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Mark Toohey’s startup is a joke – literally. Called TBSx3, the startup is developing a blockchain-based system intended to stall counterfeiters. The joke is in the company name, which...

CSIRO: Robo-debt and drug tests

Posted on   |  by James Riley
CSIRO has still not officially agreed to allow its Data61 analytics unit to become involved in the government’s highly contentious welfare drug testing program, a Senate estimates hearing has...

CSIRO ‘not told’ of drugs project

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
CSIRO was not consulted about a controversial program to drug test welfare recipients before a Cabinet minister announced that its Data61 analytics unit would be a key player in...

Blockchain’s new coming of age

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
In a week when Bitcoin broke through the $US2,000 barrier, news emerged that a pallet of Coonawarra wine had completed its 8,100 kilometer journey to China’s Qingdao with its...

CSIRO and the politics of data

Posted on   |  by James Riley
You have to wonder how the CSIRO found itself used as an elaborate prop in the delivery of a mean-spirited and pointless political wedge via Treasurer Scott Morrison’s second...

Vic privacy chief slams drug tests

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victorian Privacy Commissioner has slammed the federal government’s plan to “randomly” drug test new welfare recipients, as the scheme faces a tough path through Parliament. Victorian Commissioner for...

Privacy code to cover drug data

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Federal Government has agreed to the creation of a new privacy code to apply to the Australian Public Service following a series of high-profile and embarrassing data debacles...

Data-driven drug tests a disaster

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The government’s new “data-driven profiling” method for drug testing welfare recipients risks running into the same issues as its robo-debt tool and poses a serious privacy risk, the Opposition...